Being lovingly knowingly ignorant: white feminism and women of colour --- Mariana OrtegaAbstract: The aim of this essay is to analyze the notion of "loving, knowing ignorance," a type of "arrogant perception" that produces...
Church ladies, good girls, and locas: Stigma and the intersection of gender, ethnicity, mental illneAbstract: Inner city women with severe mental illness may carry multiple stigmatized statuses. In some contexts these include having a...
Triple jeopardy? Mental health at the intersection of gender, race, and class -- Sarah RosenfieldAbstract Structural theories of stratification predict that groups with low positions in social hierarchies experience high rates of...
Class and Feminine Excess: The Strange Case of Anna Nicole Smith -- Jeffrey A. BrownAbstract: Cultural concerns about race, class and beauty often intersect with mass-mediated depictions of the female body. Drawing on...
Mountains of Contradictions: Gender, Class, and Region in the Star Image of Dolly Parton -- Pamela WAbstract: The country music industry, centered in Nashville, Tennessee, was almost exclusively male-dominated until the 1960s.1 From its...